The drought in California is set to go on despite parts of the state experiencing the highest levels of rainfall in years this weekend.
The storm brought 10 inches of rain to Cogswell Dam in the Angeles National Forest, according to the National Weather Service. Downtown Los Angeles suffered three inches.
The system has now moved across southern California in time for Sunday's Oscars in LA, and forecasters are warning that heavy rain would need to become a common occurrence to reverse the effects of the recent drought.
A car drives through a flooded intersection in Studio City, California At the start of the week, just 10% of the normal rainfall had materialised.
Numerous accidents occurred across California's flooded roads as a result of the storm. One truck driver died after falling from a freeway overpass about 60 miles east of Los Angeles.
Power outages hit some 32,000 customers as warnings for flash flooding and tornadoes were issued.
Mari Poblete (left) and neighbor Lorenzo Tatone survey the hillsides National Weather Service meteorologist Eric Boldt said: "We need several large storms and we just don't see that on the horizon. This is a rogue storm. We will dry out next week."
About 13 homes were evacuated on Friday night in Palmdale in northern Los Angeles County, where a mudslide closed a main road.
Some 1,200 homes in Monrovia, Glendora and Azusa were evacuated over fears of mudslides. Just a few weeks ago the area was hit by a wildfire.
Preparations for the Oscars continue in the rain At particular risk were a dozen or so homes in Azusa backed up against a steep fire-hit hillside several hundred feet high that authorities at one point feared would collapse.
To the east in San Bernardino County, a levee failed, leaving eight houses in danger of serious flooding, but fire crews were working to protect them and no evacuations have been ordered.
Winter storm warnings were in effect in the Sierra Nevada. About 15 inches of fresh snow fell by midday on Friday at the University of California, Berkeley's Central Sierra Snow Lab.
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